> Wages are negotiated by the balance of power between management and labor. wages are not determined between management and labor, but between the owners of m

> Wages are negotiated by the balance of power between management and labor. wages are not determined between management and labor, but between the owners of means to produce and its labourers. Most managers are also labourers and are just as much on payroll as a factory worker is, they just have authority over other workers. The class conflict has always been between those who own the means and gain money through passively using this and those who do the actual labour. this dynamic still has not changed in the past 150 years, and i doubt it will change.